From the perspective of the development of the footwear industry, the industry is a typical labor-intensive industry. From the perspective of globalization, the industry always moves to countries or regions with low labor cost. Historically, the center of gravity of the world footwear industry has shifted from Italy and Spain to Japan, Taiwan and Korea, and then to mainland China. China has become a major footwear manufacturing country in the world, with more than 20,000 footwear manufacturing enterprises, employing more than 2 million people and producing more than 10 billion pairs of shoes of all kinds, accounting for more than 50% of the global total.

After the large-scale expansion of export sales, more and more Chinese footwear enterprises have started to develop domestic sales and their own brands after the economic crisis in 2008; the rapid development of enterprises and the diversification of target markets, at the same time, have also increased their own management difficulties. At the same time, it has become a bottleneck, and the information symmetry based on the management of multiple factories in the group, the planning of logistics and capital flow, and the production and marketing conflicts between domestic and foreign markets and factories have become more and more prominent.

Faced with the existing decentralized production management system, enterprises in the footwear industry need a unified technology platform to support the production of higher quality products with better user experience, finer cost control, and multi-dimensional management data analysis.

Microsoft Dynamics AX is a set of large enterprise management software that supports multi-dimensional organization, multi-factory and group management. The product provides a full range of marketing management, sales (internal and external sales), material supply, planning and production, and financial management business.

Material multidimensional management

Size of the product and material code, such as: outsole multi-size, this time through a material code multiple size dimension value to manage different sizes of outsole.

Material BOM usage by size, applied to shoe BOM settings, a material corresponding to different sizes with different usage, using a flat BOM to deal with multi-size usage.

Sales order by size, providing a quick interface for entering multiple sizes of products in the order.

Material requirements by size, BOM and sales order both involve size, through the order size and product BOM to expand the demand of material by size and material without size.

Material inventory by size, products are stored by size in the warehouse.

For size-separated production orders, when scheduling production for an order, the production order and the sales order are aligned, and one order corresponds to one sales order, and the size corresponds to the sales order.

Tracking capability of planning and execution

Microsoft Dynamics AX can solve different production modes very well. In the mixed production mode of the handbag and luggage industry, where finished products are produced according to orders and some semi-finished products are produced according to inventory, production planners can easily plan production and material requirements based on orders, implement plan adjustments, and track the execution of production and purchase orders. In case of occasional order insertion or temporary plan adjustment, planners can lock and reschedule production capacity as needed through the production management module to dynamically simulate production capacity planning under various scenarios to achieve the best capacity performance.

Material lifting code

Footwear materials require different yardage than the standard product yardage for some products, and all yardage can be used half a yard up or half a yard down. In Microsoft Dynamics AX footwear solution system, you can assign the material lift code information to the material in the BOM and calculate the material requirements based on the lift code to solve the industry-specific requirements.

Last Management

Microsoft Dynamics AX treats last as a material for inventory and purchase management, and the matching of last heel will be fully recorded in the system.

Outsourcing

Microsoft Dynamics AX provides a perfect outsourcing management solution for footwear companies in three aspects: outgoing material management, supplier capacity management and outsourcing fee settlement through the combination of production management and procurement management.

One platform for retail and distribution system

Based on the same Dynamics AX technology platform, the retail and distribution management solution focuses more on solving the business needs of private label and private distribution channel management. The seamless integration of data flow and business flow on the same platform provides long-term technical support for the vertical expansion of footwear companies.